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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Informix

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Backup Individual database, not entire instance

Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Only update rows in referenced tables only once per template repair (with p > 0), thus avoid deadlock & LongTX

Product in Use IBM Informix 11.70UC8X6Customer Information Duane GuthrieEmail: dguthrie@cisco.com Phone: 972-813-5115Sizing info TBDProduct Enhancement Request Abstract Request to only update rows in referenced tables (t1 and t2 here) only once ...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Sequential Detection Flag

This parameter controls whether the database manager is allowed to detect sequential page reading during I/O activity. (DB2 - seqdetect)
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Customer requesting JSON data type support in 4GL

Two customer using 4GL as main development system, request support for JSON variables or JSON casting in 4GL for being able to use BSON columns in 4GL.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW

The materialized view functionality will increase the performance.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Functionality for optimizer to prevent it to miscalculate the plan to execute derivedtable query

Functionality for optimizer to prevent it to miscalculate the plan to execute derived tables query generated by Cognos
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support for multiple SBSPACEs for LOBS (IBM Data Server Driver)

Our product uses smart CLOB and BLOB fields. Due to their size, they are split among multiple SBSPACEs. The classic Informix Provider for ADO.NET supports multiple SBSPACEs with methods such as "conn.GetIfxClob(tableName, columnName);". The Data S...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Function to move sysadmin database

Product : IDS 12.10We like to have a build APIto move sysadmin database from 1 dbspace to another.Currently we are using execute function task ("reset sysadmin",);And this will reset the entire database. We found out lately, multitenant database i...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

catalog database on a dbspace

Could it be possible to add a database and its dbspace from an other instance. Same as the db2 command CATALOG DATABASE database-name [AS alias] [ON path ...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration